SIX SCORE STRICKEN IN DEADLY HEAT WAVE; Of Those Victims in This City Thirty Die. Fall of Temperature Toward Evening Brings Relief to Suffering Millions -- Throngs Sleep in Parks.

A city driven out of doors last night bore witness to the weather conditions of two days, whose record in heat registery, in deaths and heat sickness, is among the highest of such records for a similar period In the history of New York. Relief had come, however, in the shape of a cool breeze that a Jersey thunderstorm drove up the coast, while its own force was spent before it reached Manhattan Island. View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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